Is it true that Hamas is exaggerating and that Israeli tanks are safe and sound?
After the start of the Palestinian-Israeli war, Palestinian resistance groups frequently released videos of their attacks on Israeli tanks and armored vehicles with anti-tank missiles, Type 105 anti-tank rocket launchers, and soil bombs. The film is truly memorable, especially in several scenes, showing the resistance fighters hitting Israeli tanks with precision, showing their tenacious fighting spirit.
However, some are skeptical of the footage of the attack on Israeli tanks released by Hamas, saying that many of the footage shows only the moment of hitting the target, but it is difficult to judge the real damage. Some even claim that Israeli tanks are highly resistant to anti-tank missiles used by the rebels, and believe that it is difficult for Israeli tanks to do substantial damage to Israeli tanks with a Yassin 105 rocket, and that Hamas may be exaggerating.
Some say that such an opinion is not meaningless. Compared with kinetic warheads, the power of armor-piercing bullets is more like a metaphysics. Under the action of multi-layer composite armor and ** anti-armor, the armor-piercing effect is obvious. Even if it penetrates heavy armor, the impact will be very different because the size of the jet is too small. With a bit of luck, the bullet can hit the ammunition depot and cause serious damage;If it is unlucky, it can only make a small hole in the vehicle, and the armor-piercing spray will dissipate in the air, leaving it no longer lethal.
Very often, the armor-piercing warhead hits the tank, causing a spark, but this does not necessarily mean complete annihilation. This phenomenon can be seen from the war between Russia and Ukraine, ** is still in place after being beaten, and it cannot simply be considered that it has been destroyed. For example, the Ukrainian forces launched round after round of anti-tank guns and sustained strikes by FPV drones against Russian T-80BVM tanks, proving that when an armor-piercing shell strikes, hitting and destroying are two different things.
However, it should be pointed out that even if the vehicle hit by the armor-piercing warhead is not completely destroyed, it will be paralyzed due to various factors. For example, damage to the power compartment, fuel tanks, driving mechanisms, transmission mechanisms, or electronics can leave equipment stuck in place and no longer able to fight. In this case, the equipment was often discarded until later armies came to retrieve it.
In addition, a vehicle hit by an armor-piercing projectile can have other serious consequences, if not destroyed. For example, passengers in a car can be injured and require immediate evacuation and medical attention. In combat, the crew is incapacitated by serious injuries such as being pierced by bullets or wounded limbs. The worst thing is that even if the car is not damaged, the armor-piercing shells will cause damage to the machine and electronic systems, and will have to be withdrawn from combat condition for maintenance. Therefore, even if they are not destroyed, the vehicles of armor-piercing missiles will encounter some problems that cannot be ignored, which will seriously affect their battlefield combat effectiveness.
The devil is hiding in such subtleties, and the biggest problem may not be the armor-piercing bullet, but how to deal with it after being shot. If your vehicle is hit by a bullet fired by Hamas, maybe the vehicle will be fine, but do you have the guts to send a rescue force?You don't have soldiers to control the surrounding buildings, can you be sure that Hamas won't ambush you when you come to the rescue, turning your rescue efforts into a trap?Even if they send their cars back to the base safely, once someone is injured, it means that the number of people in a team is very small, and there is a high probability that any one wounded person will cause the entire team to lose their combat effectiveness, so they must all leave until the wounded recover before they can join the battle again.
Even if the people inside are fine, but there are some bullet marks on the car, and some machines and electrical appliances are damaged, but the maintenance equipment in front of it can't be repaired, so what?Therefore, only the damaged car can be returned to the manufacturer for repair. In many western regions, the maintenance of its land combat equipment is generally good, but Israel has now largely lost the ability to produce Merkava. Repairing a damaged chariot is nothing more than a cup of tea, a cigarette, and a piece of armor for them, and it takes a day's work. So, whether it's destroyed or destroyed, it's the same.